PINNED: * PLEASE, DO NOT POST SPOILERS! * Also, a word about LOWBALL... Yes, as you'll hear me mention in the commentary, I know there are different ways of playing Lowball. For this episode, I chose the somewhat easier way of playing it. In the more common form of Lowball, you have to knock down at least 1 pin on each ball. If you don't, you're credited with a strike (first ball) or a spare (second ball). In hindsight, I kinda wish we'd have played it that way this time. But we didn't. If we ever play Lowball again on PRODIGY, I'll most likely choose the more common form of Lowball described above. But this was the first time our kids played Lowball, and I didn't want to make it too difficult. Hey, it's Christmas, after all. :-)
Coach, I've watched a lot of your videos and learn a bit from your youth bowlers as an older bowler myself. This one was very special seeing little Hunter do so well in the different games you played. A huge thumbs up to Jesse to bow out and let Hunter get a chance at the final round. It broke my heart so see Hunter let the best of his emotions to get away from him; but that's how much of a competitor he is. I recently had the front nine on my Sunday league and got the tenth. The eleventh shot; well not so good. I turned my wrist for no reason and sent the ball wide rolling over the thumb hole and only covered nine. I thought I should have thrown myself on the floor like Hunter did but I'm a bit older and I'd need some help getting back up. He didn't want at strike and I REALLY needed one. That's how this game is. Letting him sign the trophy pin is proof positive what you do with these kids will live with them forever. Congrats to Nick, Hunter and Coach Randy.
This episode was very fun to watch. These kids are amazing. The way these kids show great sportsmanship is extraordinary. I enjoy watching every episode of Prodigy. Have a very Merry Christmas to all the kids and to you Coach Randy.
You have a great bunch of kids there. I remember my junior coach and she was a wonderful lil lady who took the kids under her wings and taught them, she taught me how to bowl and I now bowl in 3 leagues a week and avg from 215-227 . You are doing a great job Randy keep it up!!! I miss Logan F on here but its ok as long as Faith is on she is like a lil firecracker and she throws a good ball.
If you watched through to the very end, then you heard me say what I feel about this group of kids. They're awesome. And Logan F. is awesome, too. But this series was never intended to be "The Logan Show" (or the Any-Other-Kid Show). You know, the other kids who appear read these comments, too, and I suspect they get tired of reading all the "Where is Logan?" comments. One of them even mentioned it to me, saying, "What about those of us who DO bowl on the show? What about us?" And that kid was right. So I've gone to pretty much deleting most all the "Where's Logan?" comments from now on. He's got his own channel, and they can ask him there. He's always welcome to bowl with us. I'd like for him to give Nick some competition. But it's his call. And I'm perfectly okay with the kids we have being the stars of the show. PRODIGY is bigger than any one player.
BrownswickBowling.. I never met to just single Logan out. You are right the kids that do bowl on the show put in their all and try very hard. You do a great job with them. I watch every video to the end.
Randy, this is your best of your 100 Prodigy shows. Your technical savvy and love of the game and your prodigies is unparalleled. Keep up the good work. I look forward to your 2019-20 season,
Another great episode - my heart was in my throat as it got down to the final frames of the championship match. Best wishes for the holiday season and the new year to the entire prodigy gang!
Being I too am very, very sensitive to very touching events, I too had to really feel for Hunter. I could not believe the ill luck he ran into in the final match. Also, Randy - to you and your family, a very merry Christmas and definitely a healthy New Year!
We play lowball different you take the first shot and get the lowest pins but than the next you have to get one of the pins left or it is a spare.love your show😁
I mention in the commentary that there are different ways of playing Lowball, and I referenced the way you have described. I didn't want to make it too difficult this first time. If we play it again, we might use the method you have described.
Me and a bunch of my bowling friends play low ball all the time to help practice on making you're ten and seven pin spares. But how we play is if you make the ten pin you have to hit a pin on you're next ball so that's why we go after the seven pin. Everything else is the same. Gutter strike. Second ball gutter spare. Don't know if we are doing it wrong. Was wondering why they didn't go for the 7 pin,it's so easy to hit it without really hitting other pins.
I gave him a lesson recently and we basically focused on two areas: One to get him into the habit of checking his feet every time and knowing PRECISELY where he's standing. (He didn't on the shot that ended his chances. He just grabbed his ball and took off.) And second, to really work on sticking the landing at the foul line. When he does, he's usually on point.
Hunter was not alone. In the five years we did PRODIGY in the Atlanta area, I saw a lot of crying from a lot of players, including a few who shed a tear over not making the cut to advance to be on the show. Sometimes I even saw tears on the faces of older kids from whom you wouldn't have expected it. But I always considered it a healthy sign that they cared -- they cared about winning. When you consider all the kids in America these days who don't care -- kids who've grown up getting "participation trophies" just for showing up (something I abhor), I always thought we were doing something good for these kids by instilling in them a drive to do their best.
@@ProdigyBowlersTour They are all better bowlers than me. Im a left handed 19 year old male (obviously) my birthday is (2-4-03) and I haven't bowled in like 4 or 5 years. And don't plan on it for a while longer because I hurt my arm the last time. But yeah hunter is the only one I ever saw cry, and videos I see with him in and bowling I always vote for him to win because he seems so excited about participating and wanting to put his name on the trophy pin which I say is very cool. He's not the only kid I vote for, I vote for Rowan and Christian and Charlie and sometimes Logan F. I haven't seen LOFO in quite a while.
We've had kids come from Tennessee, and from much farther. One kid came all the way from Honolulu, Hawaii to bowl on PRODIGY. And I'm expecting a visitor from Germany sometime in the next few months. You're fresh out of excuses. If you bowl in a Saturday youth league where you live, I have one word for you: PREBOWL.
I will usually have tournaments on Saturdays but I will have to figure out when I have an open. I’ve been watching for a while now and have been wanting to bowl on this type of broadcast. I love it!!!
Your best bet is to join our Facebook group (yes, it's called "Prodigy Bowlers Tour" -- be sure to answer the three screening questions when you submit a request to join). That way we can stay connected and you'll hear of any changes in venue or taping schedule. I always strongly urge visitors to let me know when they're coming. I'd hate for someone to go to all the trouble to show up and then get there and find out we're off that week. That would suck.
You'll need to bring it. Some of these kids are 200+ average and, as I'm sure you are if you bowl a lot of tournaments, are all very accustomed to bowling on sport shots. Most PRODIGY episodes are bowled on sport shots. But we do occasionally bowl on the house shot. I'd say it's about 75/25 sport/house.
Hey Randy, loved the different formats. Do you work with the kids on having a system for picking up the 10 pin? I was surprised during lowball. Thought they'd do much better avoiding the other pins.
It's one of the hardest things to learn, especially when you haven't yet developed the strength to do it. Plus, they thing they have to get around the ball to hook it, when in fact, these modern balls are built to hook.
Braden Aurand - There are different ways of playing Lowball. If we do it again (and I suspect we will), we’ll likely play under the rules you describe.
my bowling ball is a Brunswick cutting edge hybrid which it has mid lane traction where the heavy oil is. I pretty much through a big hook cranker style my highest game is a 230.
I think for the low ball game if ur on the left go for the 7 pin first and on the right the 10 pin on the first ball after that the 2nd shot is the bowlers choice
We play low ball slightly different. Our rules is that you must hit at least one pin each shot. A perfect game would be a 22. Still both ways are challenging.
Yes, I referenced this other way of playing Lowball in my commentary. Also mentioned it in a couple of different discussion threads on this page. Including the pinned post at the top.
We play Pinpoint on this episode. We played it last year in the episode called The Christmas Gift Exchange. Also in the episode dated 12/10/2016. But today's show has more players playing it. I love Pinpoint. It should be obvious by now that it's a staple of our Christmas season shows.
Wow! that was a real roller-coaster ride. Best of the season to you and everyone at Prodigy! And know for something completely different.. I've noticed that there are very few left handers on Prodigy. Is this something specific to BZ Roswell or just a current lack of LHers in your junior program? At my home house it's 15% across all demographics. Any thoughts on this?
You know, we don't have a single left-hander in our youth leagues. I have no idea why. The last lefty that we had in our youth program was Megan Thorncroft, who's been in college now for...let's see...I think this is her second (maybe third) year in college (she bowls on her college team). Perhaps her most memorable appearance on PRODIGY was on the 12/17/2016 episode. Come to think of it, I can't think of very many left-handers who bowl league at Brunswick Zone Roswell in adult leagues, either. I'm sure there must be some. But at one time or another, I bowled in leagues there on every night of the week except Tuesday, and I just can't recall many southpaws in that house. There is one big, strapping right-handed guy who throws a backup ball and revs the snot out of it (he bowled 300 in league a year or two ago). But not many lefties in that house. I've never heard a lefty say the house is especially difficult for lefties, but now that you mention it, the only left-handed winner we've had on PRODIGY that I can recall was a young visitor named Brandon Jho, who won in the Littles Division once last season and bowls league over at Brunswick Zone Lilburn. Frankly, there aren't that many notable left-handers in the Atlanta area that come to mind. Certainly there are a few. But less than you'd think there ought to be. Probably the best lefty we've had on PRODIGY is Dawson Stewart, who's appeared a few times, and was Georgia's Youth Bowler of the Year a couple of years ago.
My Christmas wish for you, then, is that you go through life with someone looking over your shoulder pointing out your every little mistake. Happy Holidays!
PINNED: * PLEASE, DO NOT POST SPOILERS! *
Also, a word about LOWBALL...
Yes, as you'll hear me mention in the commentary, I know there are different ways of playing Lowball. For this episode, I chose the somewhat easier way of playing it. In the more common form of Lowball, you have to knock down at least 1 pin on each ball. If you don't, you're credited with a strike (first ball) or a spare (second ball). In hindsight, I kinda wish we'd have played it that way this time. But we didn't. If we ever play Lowball again on PRODIGY, I'll most likely choose the more common form of Lowball described above. But this was the first time our kids played Lowball, and I didn't want to make it too difficult. Hey, it's Christmas, after all. :-)
Are those scoring systems new? Ive never seen them on the show
New QubicaAMF BES X scoring system, intalled a couple of weeks ago. Replaced the ancient Frameworkz system.
Games like this are actually good. It teaches bowlers, at least it should, to become a better spare shooter and overall accuracy.
Coach, I've watched a lot of your videos and learn a bit from your youth bowlers as an older bowler myself. This one was very special seeing little Hunter do so well in the different games you played. A huge thumbs up to Jesse to bow out and let Hunter get a chance at the final round. It broke my heart so see Hunter let the best of his emotions to get away from him; but that's how much of a competitor he is. I recently had the front nine on my Sunday league and got the tenth. The eleventh shot; well not so good. I turned my wrist for no reason and sent the ball wide rolling over the thumb hole and only covered nine. I thought I should have thrown myself on the floor like Hunter did but I'm a bit older and I'd need some help getting back up. He didn't want at strike and I REALLY needed one. That's how this game is. Letting him sign the trophy pin is proof positive what you do with these kids will live with them forever. Congrats to Nick, Hunter and Coach Randy.
This episode was very fun to watch. These kids are amazing. The way these kids show great sportsmanship is extraordinary. I enjoy watching every episode of Prodigy.
Have a very Merry Christmas to all the kids and to you Coach Randy.
I’m upset I couldn’t make it, this looks like fun!
We missed you. I knew you would be kicking yourself when you saw this.
BrownswickBowling I WILL play a game of pin-point, whether it be on prodigy or on my own time. I have to try it.
You have a great bunch of kids there. I remember my junior coach and she was a wonderful lil lady who took the kids under her wings and taught them, she taught me how to bowl and I now bowl in 3 leagues a week and avg from 215-227 . You are doing a great job Randy keep it up!!! I miss Logan F on here but its ok as long as Faith is on she is like a lil firecracker and she throws a good ball.
If you watched through to the very end, then you heard me say what I feel about this group of kids. They're awesome. And Logan F. is awesome, too. But this series was never intended to be "The Logan Show" (or the Any-Other-Kid Show). You know, the other kids who appear read these comments, too, and I suspect they get tired of reading all the "Where is Logan?" comments. One of them even mentioned it to me, saying, "What about those of us who DO bowl on the show? What about us?" And that kid was right. So I've gone to pretty much deleting most all the "Where's Logan?" comments from now on. He's got his own channel, and they can ask him there. He's always welcome to bowl with us. I'd like for him to give Nick some competition. But it's his call. And I'm perfectly okay with the kids we have being the stars of the show. PRODIGY is bigger than any one player.
BrownswickBowling.. I never met to just single Logan out. You are right the kids that do bowl on the show put in their all and try very hard. You do a great job with them. I watch every video to the end.
Randy, this is your best of your 100 Prodigy shows. Your technical savvy and love of the game and your prodigies is unparalleled. Keep up the good work. I look forward to your 2019-20 season,
There are other episodes I would rank ahead of this one, but there’s no denying that our Christmas show is always special.
I want this Christmas theme song
Merry Christmas to All and to All a good night! Great video too!
Another great episode - my heart was in my throat as it got down to the final frames of the championship match. Best wishes for the holiday season and the new year to the entire prodigy gang!
Being I too am very, very sensitive to very touching events, I too had to really feel for Hunter. I could not believe the ill luck he ran into in the final match. Also, Randy - to you and your family, a very merry Christmas and definitely a healthy New Year!
Thank you, Theodore. Right back at ya.
We play lowball different you take the first shot and get the lowest pins but than the next you have to get one of the pins left or it is a spare.love your show😁
I mention in the commentary that there are different ways of playing Lowball, and I referenced the way you have described. I didn't want to make it too difficult this first time. If we play it again, we might use the method you have described.
Very good
Merry Christmas! What a hoot.
Glad you enjoyed, James. Merry Christmas to you, too.
Always pulling for Hunter! Everybody likes an underdog, and he’s really starting to develop his game!
I knew this episode would be a fan favorite. Regardless of how it ended.
Me and a bunch of my bowling friends play low ball all the time to help practice on making you're ten and seven pin spares. But how we play is if you make the ten pin you have to hit a pin on you're next ball so that's why we go after the seven pin. Everything else is the same. Gutter strike. Second ball gutter spare. Don't know if we are doing it wrong. Was wondering why they didn't go for the 7 pin,it's so easy to hit it without really hitting other pins.
Hunter has improved so much since he started doing two handed
I gave him a lesson recently and we basically focused on two areas: One to get him into the habit of checking his feet every time and knowing PRECISELY where he's standing. (He didn't on the shot that ended his chances. He just grabbed his ball and took off.) And second, to really work on sticking the landing at the foul line. When he does, he's usually on point.
I felt bad for hunter at the end of the frame. I never seen him cry before
Hunter was not alone. In the five years we did PRODIGY in the Atlanta area, I saw a lot of crying from a lot of players, including a few who shed a tear over not making the cut to advance to be on the show. Sometimes I even saw tears on the faces of older kids from whom you wouldn't have expected it. But I always considered it a healthy sign that they cared -- they cared about winning. When you consider all the kids in America these days who don't care -- kids who've grown up getting "participation trophies" just for showing up (something I abhor), I always thought we were doing something good for these kids by instilling in them a drive to do their best.
@@ProdigyBowlersTour They are all better bowlers than me. Im a left handed 19 year old male (obviously) my birthday is (2-4-03) and I haven't bowled in like 4 or 5 years. And don't plan on it for a while longer because I hurt my arm the last time. But yeah hunter is the only one I ever saw cry, and videos I see with him in and bowling I always vote for him to win because he seems so excited about participating and wanting to put his name on the trophy pin which I say is very cool. He's not the only kid I vote for, I vote for Rowan and Christian and Charlie and sometimes Logan F. I haven't seen LOFO in quite a while.
Me too
Merry Christmas Prodigy 🌲
Thank you, Jeff. And right back at ya.
Fun episode..!
Bruh when hunter screamed I thought there was a bird at my window😂😂😂 but nah respect to him he still took it pretty good compared to some people
I want to come down to Georgia but I live in Kentucky. I would love to bowl with little Logan!!!!
We've had kids come from Tennessee, and from much farther. One kid came all the way from Honolulu, Hawaii to bowl on PRODIGY. And I'm expecting a visitor from Germany sometime in the next few months. You're fresh out of excuses. If you bowl in a Saturday youth league where you live, I have one word for you: PREBOWL.
I will usually have tournaments on Saturdays but I will have to figure out when I have an open. I’ve been watching for a while now and have been wanting to bowl on this type of broadcast. I love it!!!
Your best bet is to join our Facebook group (yes, it's called "Prodigy Bowlers Tour" -- be sure to answer the three screening questions when you submit a request to join). That way we can stay connected and you'll hear of any changes in venue or taping schedule. I always strongly urge visitors to let me know when they're coming. I'd hate for someone to go to all the trouble to show up and then get there and find out we're off that week. That would suck.
I will certainly do that. I’m a kinda good bowler. I have a 170 average. I bowl two handed with a deadly second game.
You'll need to bring it. Some of these kids are 200+ average and, as I'm sure you are if you bowl a lot of tournaments, are all very accustomed to bowling on sport shots. Most PRODIGY episodes are bowled on sport shots. But we do occasionally bowl on the house shot. I'd say it's about 75/25 sport/house.
Hey Randy, loved the different formats. Do you work with the kids on having a system for picking up the 10 pin? I was surprised during lowball. Thought they'd do much better avoiding the other pins.
I thought Nick & Jesse were in the finals? They all did an awesome job!! I wish I could have gotten into bowling at a young age.
BlackberryWolf - Watch the segment at the end of Match 3 and before Match 4 begins. It explains what happened.
Merry Christmas Randy
Kellan Hampton - Thanks...and right back at ya!
Those 2 handers coming around the side of the ball and can't figure out why they can't roll the ball straight:-)
It's one of the hardest things to learn, especially when you haven't yet developed the strength to do it. Plus, they thing they have to get around the ball to hook it, when in fact, these modern balls are built to hook.
Happy Holidays to you Randy!
Thanks, George. And right back at you!
When we do low ball and have a spare we have to try to get only 1 pin on the second ball instead of not going for any
Braden Aurand - There are different ways of playing Lowball. If we do it again (and I suspect we will), we’ll likely play under the rules you describe.
Did they re oil the lanes during any of this competition? Looks like it's holding up pretty good for a simple house shot.
james daniels - No re-oil during this.
my bowling ball is a Brunswick cutting edge hybrid which it has mid lane traction where the heavy oil is. I pretty much through a big hook cranker style my highest game is a 230.
I think for the low ball game if ur on the left go for the 7 pin first and on the right the 10 pin on the first ball after that the 2nd shot is the bowlers choice
We play low ball slightly different. Our rules is that you must hit at least one pin each shot. A perfect game would be a 22. Still both ways are challenging.
Yes, I referenced this other way of playing Lowball in my commentary. Also mentioned it in a couple of different discussion threads on this page. Including the pinned post at the top.
sit down Hunter!!
why Nick change to 6 pound ball? I meant to ask that the last time I watched.
Hayes beat my average in low ball
2:11:35 I laughed so hard at this sentence, there's just something about it 😂 he made it sound like the screaming was a team effort or something
Still rolling on wood lanes 2020 lol
If I were playing Lowball I'd probably get a 6 pound ball and aim between the 6-10 pocket!
Randy, I have rolled out the 6-19 before.....i throw one handed resin ball
Which episode was the pinpoint one. I remember it was Charlie against Christian but can’t find the episode...
We play Pinpoint on this episode. We played it last year in the episode called The Christmas Gift Exchange. Also in the episode dated 12/10/2016. But today's show has more players playing it. I love Pinpoint. It should be obvious by now that it's a staple of our Christmas season shows.
Wow! that was a real roller-coaster ride. Best of the season to you and everyone at Prodigy! And know for something completely different.. I've noticed that there are very few left handers on Prodigy. Is this something specific to BZ Roswell or just a current lack of LHers in your junior program? At my home house it's 15% across all demographics. Any thoughts on this?
You know, we don't have a single left-hander in our youth leagues. I have no idea why. The last lefty that we had in our youth program was Megan Thorncroft, who's been in college now for...let's see...I think this is her second (maybe third) year in college (she bowls on her college team). Perhaps her most memorable appearance on PRODIGY was on the 12/17/2016 episode.
Come to think of it, I can't think of very many left-handers who bowl league at Brunswick Zone Roswell in adult leagues, either. I'm sure there must be some. But at one time or another, I bowled in leagues there on every night of the week except Tuesday, and I just can't recall many southpaws in that house. There is one big, strapping right-handed guy who throws a backup ball and revs the snot out of it (he bowled 300 in league a year or two ago). But not many lefties in that house.
I've never heard a lefty say the house is especially difficult for lefties, but now that you mention it, the only left-handed winner we've had on PRODIGY that I can recall was a young visitor named Brandon Jho, who won in the Littles Division once last season and bowls league over at Brunswick Zone Lilburn.
Frankly, there aren't that many notable left-handers in the Atlanta area that come to mind. Certainly there are a few. But less than you'd think there ought to be. Probably the best lefty we've had on PRODIGY is Dawson Stewart, who's appeared a few times, and was Georgia's Youth Bowler of the Year a couple of years ago.
1:38:27 shouldn't it be an N on the Scoresheet or is it different with Double?
It's a type-o. I wish I had a dollar for every mistake that slipped past me in the 2+ years I've been producing this show.
@@ProdigyBowlersTour ok :)
Why did no one fowl on low ball?
Reign Drops - That would be like a gutterball. It would count as a strike or spare.
9:56 at least we can give Jesse credit for shooting a 3,7 which is pretty difficult to do on a normal basis
Its Friday
What ball is Jesse using?
Nathan Light/noah phaze 2 from storm
FYI you put a X instead of an N for Jesse on the no tap frame 4
God, I love it when people find every single mistake. The real miracle is that there aren't hundreds more.
BrownswickBowling lol
BrownswickBowling You do a great job Randy but my personality just forces me to be “THAT” guy :)
My Christmas wish for you, then, is that you go through life with someone looking over your shoulder pointing out your every little mistake. Happy Holidays!
Who else thought 44:10 looked like Christian? Lol
I’m a hand fidgeter but not to that extent 😂😂
Chris Barnes=incredible hulk
After the first game it was so weird seeing everyone throw regular shots
First
How many pounds does nick throw
Christopher Rhea - I think he throws 15.
😀